Wolfgang von Hohenlohe-Weikersheim ( German: Wolfgang von Hohenlohe-Weikersheim ; June 14, 1546, Waldenburg - March 28, 1610, Weikersheim ) - German nobleman, Count Hohenlohe (since 1568), Weikersheim (since 1586), Langenburg and Neuenstein (s) . Adherent of alchemy .
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 Coat of arms of the counts of Hohenlohe | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Ludwig Casimir von Hohenlohe-Neuenstein | ||||||
| Successor | Heinrich Friedrich Hohenlohe-Langenburg | ||||||
| Birth | June 14, 1546 Waldenburg , Holy Roman Empire | ||||||
| Death | March 28, 1610 (63 years old) Weikersheim , Holy Roman Empire | ||||||
| Kind | Hohenlohe-Wikersheim | ||||||
| Father | Ludwig Casimir von Hohenlohe | ||||||
| Mother | Anna von Solms-Laubach-Lich | ||||||
| Spouse | Magdalena von Nassau-Dillenburg | ||||||
| Children | sons : Catherine Anna Agnessa Juliana Magdalena Praxedis Martha Maria Elizabeth Catherine Walburga | ||||||
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Marriage and children
- 3 Literature
- 4 References
Biography
Born June 14, 1546 in Waldenburg . The third son of Count Ludwig Casimir von Hohenlohe-Noenstein (1517-1568) and Anna von Solms-Laubach-Lich (1522-1594), daughter of Count Otto I von Solms-Laubach. Brothers - Albrecht von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg (1543-1575), Philip Ernst von Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (1550-1606) and Friedrich von Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1553-1590).
Since 1558, he attended the University of Tübingen for two years, then studied in Paris for two years, and later served in the imperial service in Vienna , where he participated in a campaign against the Ottoman Turks. After the death of his father in 1568, Wolfgang ruled Langenburg with one of his brothers and his mother, and since 1574 he ruled alone.
In 1586, the brothers made a division of their father's possessions (Hohenlohe- Neuenstein , Hohenlohe- Langenburg and Hohenlohe- Wikersheim ). Wolfgang gained possession of Weikersheim . Here he rebuilt the old castle on the water at the Renaissance palace.
Count Wolfgang was involved in horse breeding and medicine, he loved music, was fond of chemistry and alchemy in his laboratory in a two-story palace. His library had 500 volumes of books. During the Thirty Years War, the Hohenlohe family fled to Ordruf .
Marriage and children
On January 27, 1567, in Dillenburg, Count Wolfgang of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim married Countess Magdalen von Nassau-Dillenburg (December 15, 1547 - May 16, 1633), the sister of Wilhelm of Orange , the youngest daughter of Count Wilhelm the “Rich” Nassau-Dillenburg (1487–59) Juliana von Stolberg-Wernigerode (1506-1580). The spouses had the following children:
- Catherine (1567-1615)
- Anna Agnes (September 2, 1568 - September 8, 1616), husband from 1587 Count Philip Ernst von Gleichen-Thon (1561-1619)
- Georg Friedrich (September 5, 1569 - July 7, 1645), Count von Hohenlohe-Weikersheim, 1st wife since 1607 Eva von Waldstein (d. 1631), 2nd wife since 1633 Countess Maria Magdalena von Ettingen-Ettingen (1600 —1636)
- Juliana (July 23, 1571 - March 8, 1634), husband from 1605 Count Wolfgang II von Castel-Remlingen (1558-1631)
- Magdalena (December 27, 1572 - April 2, 1596), husband from 1594 Count Henry I of Reuss-Hera (1572-1635)
- Praxedis (May 1, 1574 - August 15, 1635)
- Marta (April 29, 1575 - December 19, 1638), husband from 1617 Count Johann Casimir von Leiningen-Westerburg (1587-1635)
- Maria Elizabeth (June 12, 1576 - January 31, 1605), husband from 1593 Count Johann Reinhard I of Ganau-Lichtenberg (1568-1625)
- Ludwig Casimir (February 4, 1578 - September 16, 1604)
- Catherine Johann (July 6, 1579 - November 28, 1615)
- Kraft VII (November 14, 1582 - October 11, 1641), Count Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Weikersheim, married since 1615 to the Sofia Palatine von Zweibrucken-Birkenfeld (1593-1676)
- Philip Ernst (August 11, 1584 - January 29, 1628), Count of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1610-1628), married since 1609 to Countess Anna Maria von Solms-Sonnevalde (1585-1634)
- Albrecht (December 30, 1585 - October 21, 1605)
- Wolfgang Ernst (August 11, 1587 - January 29, 1588)
- Dorothea of Walburg (September 20, 1590 - September 20, 1656), husband from 1615 Count Philip Heinrich von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg (1591-1644).
Literature
- Jost Weyer: Alchemie an einem Fürstenhof der Renaissance. Graf Wolfgang II. von Hohenlohe (1546-1610) und Schloß Weikersheim. Chemie in unserer Zeit, Band 26, 1992, S. 241
- Jost Weyer: Graf Wolfgang II. von Hohenlohe und die Alchemie. Alchemistische Studien in Schloß Weikersheim 1587-1610. Forschungen aus Württembergisch Franken, Bd. 39, Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1992
- Georg Schwedt: Chemische Experimente in Schlössern, Klöstern und Museen , Wiley-VCH, 2. Auflage 2009
- Constantin von Wurzbach: Hohenlohe, altes Herrengeschlecht in Franken . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. 9. Theil. Kaiserlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Wien 1863, S. 200 f.
- Karl Schumm: Hohenlohe, zu. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , S. 484 f.
- Alma Hannig, Martina Winkelhofer-Thyri: Die Familie Hohenlohe. Eine europäische Dynastie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert , Verlag Böhlau, Köln 2013, ISBN 978-3-41222201-7 .